Poll Notes Adult Concerns About Youth Obesity In the United States

An overwhelming majority of adults are concerned about the expanding waistlines of children in the United States, with 84 percent viewing childhood obesity as a “major problem,” according to a new Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll.

The poll also found that 81 percent of adults blame parents, not marketing and advertising by the food industry, for children’s weight problems; 83 percent say public schools should increase their efforts to restrict student access to junk foods; and 93 percent believe schools need to “do more to promote regular exercise.”